The clenching of his jaw was so intense he felt his teeth might crack. His niece, Olivia, announced that she was embracing Wicca. He listened to her explanation, the words washing over him, making him feel hollow. The room seemed to spin. He needed to be alone. He stood up quickly, excusing himself without making eye contact. He knew he would need to walk, to move, to burn off the energy churning inside him. The world seemed to be closing in around him.

Emotion: angry

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -2.05 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion angry. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 angry stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the angry emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the angry vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.354
est0.354
aggravated0.342
🤬0.337
0.323
Suppressed:
de-0.424
a-0.411
la-0.341
H-0.320
L-0.296